Hartcamp
'domestically-styled' his 1921 building's Dacostakade facade. Each of its
6 bays includes twinned windows.

At
its far end are two entries: 158 into the private mb/dc central foyer and
160 into the public Dijk Theatre (former Co Library)
whose big rectangular volume fills the centre 3 bays to level-2 height and
half the building's depth. At the near end are two more entries: big
vehicle doors at 162 lead under the building into the central Courtyard;
164 is the residential south-stair.

HARTCAMP
BUILDING (hc): DACOSTAKADE FACADE

(paste-up
2-pics
4-5-2008 / to SW)

The entry at the extreme left (south) end is 164
the south-stair onto which all Hartcamp's residential enclaves - level-1
to level-5 - open at their south ends. L5's pitched roof restricts the L5
enclave which uniquely consists of just two huge apts. From L5 it continues to
L6 as a square tower where it serves the west-side roof terrace and its
associated 1963 penthouse.

HARTCAMP
BUILDING {hc): WEST COURTYARD
FACADE

(paste-up
2-pics 4-5-2008 / to EEN)

The
Hartcamp building's 6-bay facade and 'penthouse' are visible from the
Courtyard.

Tetterode's vehicle-entry
tunnel runs under one of the L1 'entresol' bays.

Hartcamp's north bay serves Tetterode's circulation
at L2
and L3, where central stair landings extend into it as
bridge foyers.

DACOSTAKADE
BUILDING: HARTCAMP (hc)

(Architect-Drawing:
19## / Section WWS to EEN)

A
section through the centre bays (and central support pillars). Through the
big Theatre volume that rises past the L1-entresol floor, reducing it to
half the building's depth. At level-5 the sloping roof's rafters cut
diagonally into the east side. At level-6 Merkelbach's 1963 'penthouse'
tops the west flattened portion of the Hartcamp roof.

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HARTCAMP
HOMES & STUDIO-APTS ... in
process
[Written mid 1990s / updated 2008]
[NB:
a Hartcamp "window-bay" constitutes a large single window on the west
courtyard side and paired narrow windows on the east Dacostakade side - the
building is six of these bays long]

The 1921 Hartcamp building has little of Merkelbach's
sophistication and scale - its constructional technology and its architect's espousal of a 'domestic' style
on its Dacostakade front possibly influenced apt development; it certainly reduces ones fantasy expectations
of domestically invading a factory, from 'pioneering grandeur' (re: the best Merkelbach apts) to a rather 'familiar appropriateness'.

In
the
1990s most apts on the full-width L2 / L3 / L4
enclaves were Tetterode's typical smaller
living-spaces:
one or two single- window-bay volumes with a bed-platform. I was aware of only
one living-space that had achieved an unusual size and complexity (GER and INA
on L4). Since
then several apts have enlarged etc /etc

Hartcamp
floors L 1 / L 5 / L 6 are reduced in width which has led to a simpler division
of the narrower floors into a few exceptionally large spaces. Level 1 loses
almost all its E side
to the double height Dijk
Theatre and levels 5 and 6 are narrowed by the east-facade's dormered half-roof.

In
this section we will move upwards through Hartcamp's six domestic levels and
show 18 of its 23 living-spaces:

Merkelbach's low-ceilinged 'entresol' floor
[mb-L1] is used for work-spaces - this Hartcamp version is domestic. The 2.6m height
floor seems oppressively
squeezed by the huge ½m beams, and laterally by the vertical intrusion of the
Dijk Theatre (the old Co. Library), which claims three of the four east bays
behind its buttressed wall. The remaining space accommodates four apts - a small
(unvisited) space north of the theatre (over the Dacostakade street-entries) and
three big west-side
spaces.

The two
'one-sided' Hartcamp enclaves (L1 and L5) both use their access passage
intensively as store-space. In L1 almost the whole east side of the enclave
passage is a blank wall (abutting the Dijk Theatre) which is faced along its
whole length with stored items and storage-units. This may be simply a 'lazy'
response to opportunity and/or (at least in L1) a necessity for apts whose
height precludes mezzanine storage spaces.

Just
inside the enclave's north entry a single-bay apt opens to the east; for the
rest of its length - unlike the three enclaves above - its east side is a

buttressed blank wall encumbered with storage, telephone table, etc [pic:
lft] - behind this is the upper portion of the Dijk Theatre's double-height
space. On the west the passage's serves three large 2-bay apts - the nearest
open door is Theo's [see below], beyond the big beam is the centre apt, the
door of Rob's south apt faces us at the far end.

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ENCLAVE
(in 2008)

hc-L1 ENCLAVE: PASSAGE FROM
N-ENTRY
(pic 1-5-08 / to SE)

hc-L1 ENCLAVE: PASSAGE
N-ENTRY DOOR
(pic 1-5-08 / to NNW)

hc-L1 ENCLAVE: PASSAGE
E-WALL STORE FROM S END
(pic 1-5-08 / to N)

hc-L1 ENCLAVE: PASSAGE
FROM S-END LOBBY
(pic 1-5-08 / to NNW)

hc-L1 ENCLAVE: PASSAGE
- S-END LOBBY S-STAIR DOOR
(pic 1-5-08 / to EEN)Because the central passage is
pushed by the Dijk Theatre to the west the door to the south stair is set
in a deep lobby
into which the corridor storage continues.

Rob van der Bosch
left this space in c2007; it was then taken by Theo who moved from his smaller
north-end space [shown above] in August 2007.

This is the largest of the enclave's spaces. Situated at
its south end where the access passage
bends around the intrusive bulk of the Dijk Theatre to reach the SE-Stair
and releases extra space to the east.

ROB APT FROM ENTRY
(pic
9-93 / to SW)

The
floor's most spacious apt - wrapping the south end of the enclave passage and possessing
L1's only full-height window.

ROB APT
(pic
9-93 / to NW)

ROB APT
(pic
9-93 / to NNE)

View
towards the kitchen area. The corridor's S-end narrows the apt beside the
kitchen; the pillar blocks our view of the apt's entry.

Theo
moved into Rob's larger southern space in August 2007and made considerable
'finalising' changes that clearly demarcated areas of use.

Rob's layout was pragmatic
accretion of functions - Theo has cleared the space and with a minimum of
useful furniture and fittings made clear functional zones. He has screening
with a long 'storage-wall' a narrow portion
across the north end for a music and sleeping. He has made a new floor which is
insulated against the cold seeping in from the vehicle-entry tunnel
[Dacostakade 156] that passes beneath this apt. He has also begun to
make a garden terrace on
the roof of the courtyard's south-end workshops, accessed via the entresol's
uniquely large south-end window.

THEO
APT
(pic
1-5-08 / to WWN)

The
apt entry door [pic rt] is set in the north wall of the eastern extension of
this large space
and faces down the enclave passage.

THEO
APT
(pic
1-5-08 / to NNE)

THEO APT:
DINING AREA
(pic
1-5-08 / to EES

THEO APT:
BED SPACE
(pic
1-5-08 / to NNE)

THEO APT:
SOUTH WINDOW & TERRACE
(pic
1-5-08 / to SW)

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HARTCAMP:
hc-L2
ENCLAVE

Here are shown five of
level-4 enclave's six living-spaces, plus the enclave's shared kitchen:

Between the L1 'entresol' and L6
'penthouse', the height of floors is between 5m (L2) and around 4.5m (L3 to 5) -
enabling full-height mezzanines. Many of the apts in Hartcamp L2 and L3 exemplify
a
very basic stage of the typical means of spacial and functional
differentiation: a mezzanine platform at the inner windowless end - employed in
almost all Tetterode's high (4m+) yet small-area spaces (typically ½-floor
depth and 1 or 1½ window-bay
width).

On
this floor the first example, Hans' 1½ window-bay apt was the most developed of
the larger apts I visited in the mid 1990s, with a glass-fronted mezzanine-room and a depth
of accumulated complex personal use. In 2008 I visited only the floor's
'unnamed' apt
which had undergone an ambitious re-development including an extension of its
mezzanine over the Central-Stair's bridge foyer. This radical spatial
'break-out' into general circulation space is an analogue of Doratheé's on
level-3 above. (The huge space at the south end has never been visited.)

The
enclave's centre access passage has apt doors each side. the open door
is the communal kitchen [re: next pic]; just outside it is a shared
telephone. At the far end is the enclave's entry door from the central
stair/lift.

[NB:
These photos were taken during
my 3 day residence. Unfortunately the whole pattern of Hans' order is compromised by
my couch towel].

A space
1½ window-bays wide (a structural anomaly), with a walled-in mezzanine. This apt is more
differentiated spatially and more 'home-like' in its degree of
investment in fittings, than the 'bed-sit' simplicity of many of the L2/L3
apts.

In
the mezzanine extension over the
bridge-foyer, looking back into the original living-space. It took Ed about 3
days to cut the access through the landing wall and three weeks to make
the new mezzanine floor.